So, accept the traps of the language as a fact of life, and just avoid them? No, that doesn't fly with me. Programming languages aren't Forces of Nature, they

So, accept the traps of the language as a fact of life, and just avoid them? No, that doesn't fly with me. Programming languages aren't Forces of Nature, they are human artefacts. They can be corrected. Of course you should never rely on `"foo" == "foo"` and other such things. Still, one would expect literal strings in the language to be of the preferred string type. C++ is the only language I know of that breaks this expectation. It does not follow the principle of least astonishment. That, is not a cultural issue. That said, I'm willing to accept that C++ do have cultural issues. Could you tell me what they are?